During the summer, I suggest avoiding weekends if at all possible. Monday and Friday tend to be the busiest weekdays, but not nearly as bad as weekends. Weather has a huge impact on attendance as well.
Absolutely do not come on a 3-day holiday weekend. You will regret it.
Shoot me a PM if you decide to head over and I’ll take care of you. 
That will be one of the longest, slowest stretches of time in your entire life. Guaranteed.
Breakfast has been ingested. Cubed-and-fried tubers, deadpig strips, and cackleberries.
I’ve got my trunks on, and the Spousal Unit found her sandals. I’ve got my wallet in a zip-top bag, I have a zip-top bag for my Jeep keys, and a zip-top bag to put the zip-top bags in. I’ve filled my 30-ounce travel tumbler with ice water, and my kayak has a cup-holder. Right now (09:33) is the lowest of low tide. We’ll go out to the state park and see how far out the water is. Otherwise, the tide will be coming in from now until about 17 o’clock.
Do you take your wallet out on the kayak? What about your cell phone? I vote for cell phone, FWIW. Not great if you lose it, but good to have if you need help for any reason.
Yes, I am the MMP nag. Why do you ask?
Not normally. I’ll probably leave the wallet in the Jeep, but I want to be prepared. Not taking the phone. I still need to get some proper waterproof containers.
The internet company screwed up by not knowing, or caring, that UPS doesn’t deliver to post office boxes, and UPS screwed up by delivering to our old address and having such a @#%@%@% 'd up system for changing a delivery address. So I hate’s 'em both, I does.
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Wifey is a real estate broker, so we’re used to waiting out (other peoples) closings, but yes, we’re counting the days. Hopefully one more trip over the hill (the Cascades) and we’ll be done with this. My truck gets ~21 mpg but it costs at least $60+ every trip for gas. It’ll be nicer when all we have to worry about hauling is our clothing bags when we go visit.
There’s a bunch of motorcyclists in town this weekend for a ‘poker run’ sorta thing. I’m not sure how that works, but there’s some purty bikes around to ogle.
I got one of the window A/C units, and the roll-around A/C out of the basement yesterday but the exhaust hose for the roll-around is all torn and I need to go to the hardware store today to see if I can replace it. We talked to a contractor we’ve used before about installing mini-splits in our house, but it’ll be another 6 weeks or so before he can even start to think about installing them, so we won’t have to worry about these portable things again. And we can pull out all these baseboard heaters.
Well, that’s enough from me.
Y’all be careful out there.
flyboy Enjoy the 'yakking. Keep the keel side down.
Well, darn it, it started raining. Guess no mowing today. Can’t you tell I’m reeealy sad about that.
It’s cloudy, but thank heavens, the rain stopped. I was beginning to worry lost Scouts would start checking me for moss. (Or do Scouts even learn that north-side-of-trees truism now that we know it’s not that reliable?) I’m going to walk to Target to get a couple of needed items and then go for a 5-mile hike so I can get my 7 miles in.
sunny, kudos to Akiko, and I love the porch swallows. We had some of those. I was forever hurrying the dogs along so they wouldn’t get too nosy during the fledgling phase. I hope all the babies make it!
And I hear you on the hope gas prices will cut consumption, but a Wyoming friend said just today that there’s a bumper crop of RV-driving, trailer-pulling tourists bound for Yellowstone this year, so apparently it’s not working so far. How people can afford that, I’ll never know.
wheelz, the Baseball trip sounds like great fun. How long will you be touring?
taters, glad you’re back. I was thinking you must be gone on another business trip. I’m sorry to hear it was due to headache-inducing crud instead.
Oh, my gosh, swampy, I’d forgotten all about that poem!
The Prius and the RAV are parked on the street. The Jeep is turned around in the driveway. We just have to decide to go. (Also, I should urinate.)
As I understand it, you ride to a variety of places, and at each stop, you’re dealt a card. At the end, best hand wins… something…
Back from trying to figure out the electrical stuff. We identified which DC circuit breakers go to which terminals and what their wire numbers are. But there are other terminal strips that we have to find and several circuits we need to identify. And we need to figure out why a couple of the circuits aren’t working. So, fun…
I’m glad to be home - recliner time ahead.
moms got the poker run right … usually there’s a variety of donated prizes since its usually for charity …
i dont know if these are new or not but I found these at Walmart today
Bleh what they are called is pill pockets and are cat/dog treats that look like a hollowed-out rollo so you can put pills in them
https://www.bing.com/images/searchq=greenies+pill+pockets&qpvt=greenies+pill+pockets&tsc=ImageHoverTitle&FORM=IGRE
1ts been 103 f since 9 am …
They are charity events, most folks go to have fun while giving money to the cause. You ride to a variety of bars with the local Harley dealer usually being the start place. The prizes are usually leathers and t-shirts, but I’ve won such things as a certificate for a free tow and for a full body massage (not at the same time). It depends on what the organizers can round up.
There is also a 50/50 drawing, you get half the ticket sale and the charity gets the other half. Most folks donate all or most of their winnings to the charity too. We’ve hit at least 4 bars and are feeling pretty festive by then.
My favorites are the ones with bike games as well. I’ve won the weenie bite a couple of times and hubs is pretty good with the slow race.
Oh gosh, I am so sorry. I know how disappointed you must be! I need to drag hoses and water the trees tonight. We have them on drippers but that really isn’t enough during this heat.
How’s your dog search going? Do you have one in mind or are you waiting for one to reach out it’s paw and grab your heart?
What a good girl! GG still hasn’t really gotten doors either. I doubt he ever will, he has VBC to open all the doors for him. If they get separated by doors or walls, GG will wail until VBC goes and finds him and then all is right in his little kitty world again.
I’m too much of a wimp to spend any time outside when it’s this hot, so we both have spent most of our time doing not much. I stitch and hubs watches beer porn on his comp. I have a PH meter I use for fancy cheese. He can’t use that one because reasons, so bought a different one so he can test our RO water before cooking every batch. He forgot to buy the calibration stuff and was able to use mine instead of waiting for new stuff to arrive.
I can go half a mile away and be able to see a patch of the I17 between Phoenix and Prescott and Sedona. Traffic through there is right about pre-pandemic levels on the weekends. It’s slightly lighter during the day. I surely do wish employers would let their workers keep WFH, that made a huge difference out this way.
Well, hubs just came back with more beer supplies, I’m going to be a nice wife and roll the cart to the ramp for him.
Today I finally took the last of my 3X tops out of my closet; mostly t-shirts (I’ll replace two or three of them with smaller versions). I’d been putting it off, but it’s clear that — while 2X is baggy but OK — 3X is now simply way too big. Felt weird, but good. I also washed my new duds, and am looking forward to wearing some of them tonight. Live jazz, friends in the band, and the venue (which I love) has yummy sweet potato tots…bring it on!
I just warned the dog that I’m about to start getting ready to go out, and then I’ll be calling a Lyft to take me downtown. Her response was a blank look, but you just know that when I walk out the door she’ll be all confused and act like she didn’t understand a word I said. 
Yeah…they’ve been around since 2004. 
Wifey’s first kayak adventure is in the books. Well, it’s complete. We didn’t write anything down. She got the hang of it fairly quickly, though she couldn’t go very far or very fast. From the time we unloaded the 'yaks until we put them back on top of the Jeep was about an hour. Not too bad for a first trip. She will need to learn how to get out of her sit-inside, though.
Just finished lunch. I made tuna-and-cheese quesadillas. Or tuna melts on folded-over tortillas. Whatever. Mine had a metric buttload of jalapeños on it.
taters, I’m with you on posting from the phone. The tablet will work when I travel, but I don’t like squinting to read.
Glad you had a good kayaking outing flyboy. I hope that you took sunscreen too.
nellie, you are correct about moss not always being on the north side. While the trees out front have moss on the northeast side, the ground moss is on the south side of the building where it’s very shady.
bumba, others pretty much got it right on the poker run. I won a $50 gift card to a local steak house a few years back on one. I did learn to order selzer for most of the stops though. 
The donations are at Goodwill, the new tags are on the car, it’s also been washed and gassed up. Supper has been fixed (spinach / artichoke casserole, sauteed green beans with onion, garlic and mushrooms and colomorbus) and ingested. Now to prep the rolly cart for the heathen children tomorrow before chillage in the studio begins.
lol that figures
I have a question about the surgery that a friend of mine wants to know … when you lose weight like that does the chest size go down also? cause shes is rather proud of her “girls” and doesn’t want them shrinking too much (apparently she was a very late bloomer and the process hurt a bit )
11 nights this year; 10 games in 6 different cities.
We’ve been doing a Baseball Trip every year since 1989. Except 2020 
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It’s never not been a fun time.
Evening all. Just got off a Zoom “meeting” for the soccer tournament next weekend (I’ll be a referee) and then went and signed up to do 4 games on Friday (we’ll see later about Saturday). Since the prediction is temperatures in the 90F range, I should be par-boiled by then. Still, gets me out of the house, which is more than I can say about today…
Wheelie, if you ever get up my way to see the Trash Pandas (yes, that’s their name), I’ll be happy to host you.
Taters, glad you got the computer figured out. May the Mother(board) rest in peace…
flyboy, happy the kayaking went well.
Oopsie, congrats on the downsizing (the good type, I mean)
Ok, need to finish up my Fettuchini and Pepsi dinner. All ya’ll take care.
Howdy Y’all! As promised we were in major sloth mode today. We had quality cee-mint pond time, day drinkin’, and nappage as the major activities. Food was foraged as needed. Soon sleeptime will be considered.
Sunny I love that cartoon! 
Yay for Akiko and the doggie door!
VanGo try not to be too disappointed about not gettin’ to mow.
JtC a combo tow and full body massage sounds ingriguin’ and ever so dirty.